Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

`num`

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English

Syllables: `num`
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Pound (unit of weight).

American usage

noun

noun

noun

Informal

noun

In English-language Scrabble, indicates that a word is only found in the British accepted word list and not the North American list.

Example Sentences

"3#"
"#3"
"I have collected U.S. Stamps since I was a boy back in the 1950's. At that time there was a low # being printed and it was affordable."
"PTERION#"

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder. Proto-Italic *līðrā? Latin librabor. Italian librabor. Spanish librabor. Portuguese librabor. English libraabbr. English lb English # Derived from the abbreviation lb for Latin libra (“pound”), via the medieval convention of indicating abbreviations with a bar, ℔.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: libra

Usage

American usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

# (canonical) # (plural) #s (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

£

Synonyms

no.

Questions

What does `num` mean?: Pound (unit of weight).
Where does `num` come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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